Citations:advesperate

Verb: to draw towards evening

 * 1809, Joseph Hutton, School for Prodigals, published in The English and American Stage, Volume 30:
 * See the red gleaming of the western skies, proclaims that day begins to advesperate, and nature to sink into repose!
 * 1840, Baker Peter Smith, Trip to the Far West:
 * The day advesperated, ere I left the church yard of Tregony; and I pursued, in the shades of evening, my route to St. AUSTLE.
 * 1870s, J.E.L. Seneker, edited by Thomas Stone, Frontier Experience, or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident (2008 edited reprint):
 * Ultimately, as the day began to advesperate, but prior to the cadence of Phœbus,—with pedal envelopes and the inferior portion of my femoral habiliments subjected to quite an illutation…
 * 1874, Kellet Rigbye, The Poetical Works of Kellet Rigbye:
 * Then when the day advesperates they meet Within some neighbour’s cot to hold debate; They talk of village news and future toil, And then repair to Slumber’s arms awhile.